Newt Gingrich found Ted Cruz's speech 'funny'

Moments after Day 3 of the Republican National Convention ended, Sean Hannity sat down with Newt Gingrich to discuss Ted Cruz getting booed off the stage for refusing to endorse Donald Trump.

"I had the text of what Ted Cruz was gonna say, and I thought it was funny," Gingrich said. "I mean, Ted gets up and he says, 'Look, vote your conscience for someone who will support the Constitution.' Well, in this particular election year, that by definition cannot be for Hillary Clinton."

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"So in a very strange way, for a guy who's a Princeton Harvard graduate, he backed into ... he has to be for Trump, because by Ted Cruz’s own standard, there’s no other candidate that fits the criteria Ted Cruz set up."

Gingrich spoke after Cruz, following an interlude from Eric Trump, and he appeared to clean up after the Texas senator snubbed Trump.

"To paraphrase Ted Cruz, if you want to protect the Constitution of the United States, the only possible candidate this fall is the Trump-Pence Republican ticket," Gingrich said -- stretching the meaning of the word "paraphrase" to he breaking point.

But that's not quite what was loaded into Gingrich's teleprompter, according to reporters in the hall. The original line read: "Senator Ted Cruz in particular made the key point that we need to elect the Trump-Pence Republican ticket."